Faust: A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
...e he couldn’t save more lives. This sets him up to be a perfect candidate for the little wager that God and the devil make. The main character as you know is Doctor Faust, for he learns more than all of the other characters about mainly himself, and about life. Mephistopheles is a wicked soul who puts Faust through a lot of hurt mainly at the end of the story. Magarete is a woman that Faust falls in love with in the story. Her husband had just died a brutal right before she and Faust met. Wagner is a student of Faust, but is like a friend. If this book were a laboratory then I would have to say that our protagonist Faust would have to be the dependent variable. The catalyst would have to be Mephistopheles, because he single handedly causes drastic changes in our protagonist/dependent variable Faust. When these two get together obviously one is going to change, and it is not going to be Mephistopheles. When these two do get together it brings out the worst in doctor Faust. He starts to do things that he would never do without the malevolent Mephistopheles to give him a nudge of confidence of he can get away with it. The piece of action I think that would have my favorite would have to be the ending. When Mephistopheles tries to take Margarete’s soul from her and Faust tries to save her immortal soul from hell. He was unsuccessful, but then divine forces step in and protect her soul. And, a desperate Mephistopheles takes the soul of our protagonist Faust, which was offered to him in place of Margarete before the divine intervention. So, the devil couldn’t have his cake and eat it too. A major influence on the author, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, was his religious views. His religious beliefs were based more like an early deist. For those of you who do not know what a deist is, a deist is someone whose belief of God came to exist through nature. The thing I loved the most about this story would have to be the author’s writing style. For it flowed extremely well like poetry should. Most of the lines rhymed, well two lines would rhyme then the next two lines would rhyme. Then there were the occasional mixing things up with every other line rhyming with each other, but those were far too few to be anything major. That and they were often short lived. He would revert to his old rhyme scheme. There is nothing wrong with it I just would have liked to see more of the other style. He had good word choice. His sentence length was of both extremes. The tone changed with t...